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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in elearning are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

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